A few days ago I reported that Samsung was about to release a tablet bundle deal based on their Tab 2 7.0 Android tablet. This bundle wasn't supposed to hit store shelves until 19 August, but it seems to have shown up early at some Best Buy stores.One early adopter picked it up, and in the following unboxing video he confirms that this is a new white Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and that the keyboard and USB adapter accessories are the ones which were already available for the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. The retail price was $250.

I've watched the video and I still don't like this bundle. It takes a marginal tablet and combines it with a limited function dock and a limited function USB expander port. Neither accessory does much nor can they work together.

And while Samsung may be calling this a student bundle I don't think they thought it through. What good is a keyboard dock if you cannot plug other accessories like thumb drives, external DVD drives? Why no card slots? Oh, and I don't see how this could be a decent alternative to a netbook, not without either a trackpad or mouse. I wonder why they didn't include a mouse?

Frankly, I think you'd be better off getting a tablet that comes with more ports and then adding either a BT or USB keyboard and mouse. Now that could be useful.

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I criticize these accessories and then say i want to be notified when Samsung invents a good accessory instead of copying Apple. Where does that imply that these accessories are copied from Apple? That really makes no sense.

It’s pretty clear that I’m heckling Samsung for not being able to create decent accessories on their own. Given that they are infamous for copying Apple I would have thought this was obvious.

Although Apple hasn’t detailed its complaint against Samsung, a possible motive could be a smart cover look-alike that was “Samsung certified” back in July. The Galaxy Tab tablet cover was sold in Samsung’s South Korean stores and created by Anymode. Anymode is owned by Youngbo Engineering, headed by the nephew of Samsung chairperson Kun-Hee Lee, according to 9to5Mac.

Not a Samsung product? I literally LOLed at that one. And I’m still giggling.

The nephew of the chairman of Samsung copies an Apple product and you don’t think it was an unofficial maneuver of Samsung? Oh gods, I didn’t know I could enjoy baiting a troll as much as I am right now.

Um it might be an extremely unofficial maneuver of Samsung, as the product was made by a different company. This does not take away from the point that you are a moron. It’s not a “marginal” tablet–it has similar specs to the latest Nexus tablet. You gave no reason to call it “marginal”–that was just trash talk. And you actually asked what good is a keyboard! Don’t you know what a keyboard is for, you idiot?

Moron. You just compared them–of course they are comparable. They are similar products in terms of functionality and performance. Some might prefer the expandability and second camera of the Tab. The larger point is that you are talking out of your ass. Have you figured out what a keyboard is used for yet?

That would be clever, considering that there are people who believe that Mike Cane and I are the same person. A fictional personality invents his own fictional personality? Andy Kaufman and Sasha Baron Cohen would be impressed.